Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-12

a fathers counsel, and q mothers
love, and a sisters confidence, call il
home.
HABITS OF INDUSTRY.
Another defense for a young man is
industrious habits. Many young men,
in starting upon life in this age, ex-
pect to make their way through the
world by the use of their wits rather
than the toll Of their hands. A child
now goes to tie city and Aals twice be-
fore he is as old as his father was when
he first saw the spires of the great
town. OSitting fin some Office, rented
at a thousand sdoilars a year, he is
waiting for the bank to declare its
dividend, or goes into the market ex-
pecting to be made rich before night
! by the rushing up Of the stocks. But
luck seemed so dull he resolved on
some other tack. Perhaps he borrow
ed from his employers money drawer,
and forgets to put it back, or for
merely the purpose of improving his
~penmanship makes q copy-plate of q
merchants signature. Never mind, all
is right in trade. In some dark night
there may come in his dreams visions
Of BlackwelI's island, or of Sing Sing,
but 1t soon vanishes. In a short time
he will be ready to retire from the
busy world, and amid his locks and
herds culture the domestic virtues.
Then those young men who once were
his schoolmates, and knew no better
than to engage in honest work, will
come with their ox-tcams to draw him
logs, and with their hard hands help
heave up his castle.
THIS is NO FANCY PICTURE.
1t Is everyday life. / should not won
der if there were not some rotten beams
in that beautiful palace. l should not
wonder if dire sickness should
smite through the young man,
OF If God should pour into
his cup of life a draught that would
thrill him with %unbearable agony. /
should not wonder if his children
should become to him n living curse,
making his home a pest and a disgrace.
| should not wonder if he goes to a
miserable grave, and beyond it into
the gnashing of teeth. The way of the
ungodly shall perish.
My young friends, there is no way
to genuine success, except through toll
either of the head or hand. At the
battle of Crecy, in 1916, the prince of
Wales. finding himself heavily pressed
by the enemy. sent word to his father
for help. The father, watching the
battle from a windmill, and seeing that
his SON was not wounded and could
gain the day if he would, sent word:
.'No, | will not come. Let the boy
win his spurs, for. ii God will, / desire
that this day be his with all its honors."
Young man, fight your own battle all
through, and you shall have the vic
tory. Oh, it is a battle worth fighting.
Two monarchs OF old fought a duel,
Charles v. and Francis, and the stakes
were kingdoms, Milan and Burgundy.
You fight with sin, and the stake is
heaven or hell.
A FATAL IDEA.
Do not get the fatal idea that you
are a genius, and that therefore there
is no need of close application. Ii is
here where multitudes fail. The great
curse of this age is the geniuses, men
with enormous self-conceit and egotism,
and nothing else. ] had rather be an
OK than ar eagle; plain. and plodding,
and useful, rather than ~high-Hying and
good for nothing but to pick out the
eyes Of carcasses. Extraordinary Ca
pacity without use is extraordinary
failure. There is no hope for that
person who begins life resolved to live
by his wits, for the probability is he
has not any. 1t was not safe for
Adam, even in his unfallen state. to
have nothing to do, and therefore Gud
commanded him to be a
farmer and horticIltur,st. He
was to dress the garden and
keep and had he and his wife
obeyed the divine injunction and been
al work, they would not have been
sauntering under the trees and hunger
ing after that fruit which destroyed
tuCIu dhu tuClt pOntCIlIy plOoi poSitiNS
for all ages to come that those who do
not attend to their business are sure to
get into mischief. l do not know that
the prodigal In scripture would ever
have been reclaimed had he not given
up his idle habits and gone to feeding
swine for a living. "Go to the ant,
thou sluggard, consider her ways and
be wise. which having no overseer OF
guide p%rovidcth her food in the sum-
mer and gathereth her meat in the
harvest" The devil does not so often
attack
TIFF MAN WHO rs BUSY
with the pen, and the book. and the
trowel, and the saw, and the hammer.
He is afraid of those weapons. But
woe to that man whom this roaring
lion meets with his hands in his
pockets. DO not demand that your
toll always be elegant, and oleanly and
refined. There is a certain amount of
drudgery through which we must all
pass, whatever be our occupation. You
know how meE are sentenced, a GER
tain number to years Of prison, and
after they have suffered and worked
out the time, then they are allowed to
go free. And so it is with all Of us.
God passed on US the sentences: "By
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